SPEAR indicates pesticide effects in streams - Comparative use of species- and family-level biomonitoring data

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1841-1848

  Beketov, M A ^a   Foit, K ^a   Schafer R B ^a   Schriever, C A ^a   Sacchi, A ^b   Capri, E ^b   Biggs, J ^c   Wells, C ^d   Liess, M ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Large scale; Macroinvertebrates; Pesticides; SPEAR; Streams; Traits

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; LARGE-SCALE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SPEAR; STREAMS; TRAITS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BIOMARKERS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

PESTICIDE EFFECTS;

INSECTICIDE;

BIOASSAY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPEAN UNION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; STREAM; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 64149112408     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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